Those IDUM sliders... IDUM is meant to sit there and stay uninvolved with the Chance slider at 0 and takes over completely at 100. What does it take over? A "sequence." The length slider doesn't really adjust "craziness," but the number of successive repetitions of the sequence. With the Length slider at 1, the Chance slider will 'spin the dice " after ever sequence. With Length at 4 or 5, IDUM will do its thing for 4 or 5 successive sequences and then spin the dice after that. The Chance slider setting will essentially determine what percent of the time to add its variations. Use 100% for percussion breaks, particularly when you have a free hand to turn the PARAM knob and jam... or lesser percents for creating variation while also maintaining the unaltered pattern. It's a fabulous device, though as you noticed, one can go too far pretty easily in some of its modes. One learns this pretty fast, but modes can also be locked out to avoid this problem. And then there is looping mode!
It's definitely a fun module, but I'm clearly going to have to spend some quality time with the manual to get a handle on it. Which is a little weird for a module called IDUM....
I think if you used a steady sequence of single notes at different pitches for each channel, we could hear exactly what’s happening. I don’t have any of these yet, but it seems like the Jam Jam could do some really cool Steve Reich style phasing.
They're going for crazy money. Have been going up over the last couple years. I see one posted now for $479. That seems excessive but makes me consider selling mine.
I usually like your videos, but I'm not sure I understand the point of demonstrating modules you haven't learned. "I didn't read the manual because it's 38 pages." If half the modes on IDUM just don't work, that's kind of an area I'd want a demo video to explore further.
For me a lot of this exploration is to understand just how much extra effort I'm going to have to put in to get decent result out. I still have IDUM in my rack 'cause it's interesting and worth some effort, but I still think a 38 page manual indicates that the module could have been better designed (e.g. make it bigger, bring some of the not-so-secondary functions up to the panel). It's a common problem with many modules where the makers try to cram as much into as small a space as possible, and you lose usability as a result. For me it's useful to do a "I'm coming at this from zero" video so I can remember what it was like once I do understand the module better. Gives me a measure of whether the usability issues were worth the effort.
@@JohnSchussler Thanks for the insight. A year or more later, did you ever read the manual or get the IDUM to do as it's told? I've been curious about its potential.
@@alexmeeres5072 I read parts of it as I explore the modes. It has lots of modes, and the new firmware has added some new states, so it's an ongoing process...
Hi John, I have now published a step-by-step video manual for the users to understand how the features work to design your variation algorithms, here is the link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VbdCi5Atodw.html I hope this can let you discover Particles potential! Eventually, if you could please update your video to help other users too :) Thanks
